Tekiah and Teruah - Vol 2 Pg 121(most of piece, up until start of second to last paragraph.) (This and previous post learned w R Nosson Schaefer.)

From Bamidbar, where we're told about the chatzotzrot:

1 - When a war comes to your land, regarding the tormentor who torments you, you will make sounds (vehereiotem/teruah sounds) with the chatzotzrot… (next pasuk) 2 - and on your happy days andand holidays you will make sounds (utekatem) with these chatzotzrot/trumpets (over the olot and zivchei shalom, before G-d).

2 ideas of tekiah 

1 - War in inside you and, coming to you, strife inside your gates.  This is the enemy inside you that you must chase away. You blow to announce the war of chasing the tormenting enemy away. 

2 - Coronating the king, accepting his kingship with joy, on your happy, holidays.

When blowing in the first case it says ve’harei’otchem - a moaning, groaning, howling (genuchei genach, veyelule yalil)

The second instance is utekatem, the blowing of victorious rejoicing.

These 2 elements combine in the blowing of RH, 

1 - Uprooting the bad, chasing and cleaning out our internal enemy, chasing him out (legareish also means to divorce).

2 - We have in RH blowing the aspecting of coronating the king anew, acceptin ol malchut shamayim accepting OM”SH with simchah.

This follows getting rid of the enemy, after that we can coronate the king, and have HKBH rule over all of our being, every limb.  This is the combo of these two sounds.

Beis Avraham (Z”YA) - Mizmore Shir Chanukat Habayit - the roshei teivot are simchah! We start and close with simchah - pitachtah saki, veta’azreini simchah.  In between there is much outpouring of the soul’s bitterness - eilechah...ekrah… echanan… mah betzah…

The start and the end have to be with simchah/happiness - as it is written - ivdu et hashem be’simchas, as the tochachah clearly says that it comes because of not serving G-d with joy.  

Yet, in between our happy opening and close wewe must have bitterness and the outpouring of our souls. We are forbidden to liv like an animal, without da’at/knowledhe/connection and chesbon/accountability regarding our world.

RH is this - two elements, delight and tears, Who is like our nation, with G-d close to us, our G-d, whenever we call Him, and there is mercy winning out over judgment on this day, as we say vis Zohar pre tekiot, filling our essence with inner joy.

With all that we remember how we were so distant from G-d and didn’t do what G-d wanted one way or another (shoge/meizid), or we forgot completely about G-d.  Doesn’t this call for embarrassment, shrinking f our painful G-d.  How could we trade closeness to G-d for a bowl of porridge!? We do this, for nonsensical lusts.

We have a tekiah first and last, happiness, success/victory.  But in between we must have the teruah, the wailing over how we grew so far from our Father in Heaven. 

1 - Yerushalmi - Who is like this great nation that has G-d close to it… This is us, dressed in white, etc. This implies we must be besimcha.

2 - Bavli - We don’t say Hallel - the books of the living and the dead are open before Me..

This is another eg. of the tekiah aspect, victory, and the element of teruah - broken heartedness, and bitterness. 

And yet we wear white, like the sandwich of the tekiah first and last.

9 sounds.3 levels.  The lower realm, the heart, the mind.  The sofar, G-d calling to us, must be heard in each section of us, both of these aspects.  More than in our head and heart, but all our body, even the source of lust/desire, we get filled with awe of this day.  On this day the great shofar will be blown. Great shofar means its message will enter us fully, even the parts that are ovdim and nidachim, lost, spread thin.And these parts will rise up to a high level, to bow to Hashem on the Har haKodesh,Yerushalayim.

Also, the tekiah represents emunah peshutah - simple faith - and thus it’s at the start and end - like Hashem, Hashem, kel… Hashem before we sinned, and Hashem after we sinned.  Beis Avraham on hashem Hashem lamah azavani - Hashem, there, before and after we sinned.  So why should You abandon me - you are always my G-d.  

The first tekiah is to strengthen us, remind of the Judge and judgement, that hashem, creator watches and sees in dark and light, and this will give us strength to deal.  

The tekiah after teaches us regarding faith after sinning.  If we didn’t pass a test, we shouldn’t despair, but take strength in G-d being our merciful, gracious/kind king.  He;ll accept our teshuva post sin.  While we are in between, overwhelmed by our yetzer, we should at least see the sin in all its power and cry out, moan, groan, like the truah, pay, beg ro be saved from the dirt.  And we need to have strength if we do fall. “Since I fell, I got up…” And there’s G-d’s light.  Our broken heartedness over serious sins needs to part of a positive process, not a destructive one leading to despair.  

“I will build an alter with the brokenness of my heart.” - R Yehuda HaChasid. This fits with our understanding the happy sounds surrounding the sad ones, and this fits with the line we say at shofar blowing about going in the direction of G-d’s light.  

When the great shofar is blown there’s return of the lost - ovdim, fully lost, and nidachim is one who gets repeatedly lost.  Via the great shofar- the crying out from in our heart enters the shofar and brings back all who are lost and have gone astray.

The tekiah teaches us us about emunah - faith, the great shofar, which can lift us from the 49th level of impurity. This is what Chazal say that it was the merit of emunah - faith that allowed us to be redeemed from Mitzrayim, and in the future we will be redeemed again. 

This relates to the pasuk about going out to war, and seeing a great army with horses, etc. The kohen says shemah… not to be afraid, because G-d goes out with you… The question is why not be afraid, it’s normal that many fall in war!? The answer is that trusting in G-d brings special protection to return in peace. As we say via Yishayahu, the opening line of havdalah, hinei kel… Those who fall lack faith. And with the war with our yetzer, faith is key, then there’s no blocking, and there’s help from Heaven.

Also the tekiot are the surrounding faith.  The midot are surrounded by faith.  The din is sweetened by faith, and